Save Big on Coursera Plus. 7,000+ courses at $160 off. Limited Time Only! Grab it Explore the new State Reader API, a powerful capability introduced by Databricks for accessing and analyzing Structured Streaming's internal state data. Learn how this API differs from traditional Spark data formats and its primary purpose in developing, debugging, and troubleshooting stateful Structured Streaming workloads. Dive into stateful operator basics, understand common challenges with state data, and discover how the State Reader API, set to be included in Apache Spark™ 4.0.0, addresses these issues. This 16-minute talk, presented by Craig Lukasik, Sr. SSA at Databricks, provides valuable insights for data engineers and developers working with Apache Spark and Structured Streaming.